Amitava Kumar Quotes

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.

I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

Me and my dad, we're both quite nostalgic people.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!

Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

I'm really obsessed with the past.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

I don't think I've got a problem with nostalgia, because a lot of the time things are self-referential.

I guess this song isn't about anything necessarily sad, but it makes me sad just because it makes me think about how inaccessible the past is, but it's called 'Boy Child' by Scott Walker.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.

It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.

How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

If only Jupiter would restore me those bygone years.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.